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Wendell Willkie came out on top in his second straight House poll yesterday, beating Franklin Roosevelt in Lowell by an even greater margin than in Adams, the first House to hold a straw vote early this week.
Willkie swept through with 107 out of 200 or 53 1/2%, while his Democratic rival was polling only 71 ballots, or 35 1/2%. Norman Thomas won five tallies and Earl Browder two, with 12 voters registering themselves as undecided.
Three write-in candidates drew support from one voter apiece when a die-hard Republican voted for Hoover, a die-hard Democrat voted for Hull, and a die-hard monarchist, who hadn't heard of 1776, voted for George VI. About two-thirds of the House cast ballets.
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